Nene Hatun

Nene Hatun

female, deceased (1955)
Nene Hatun (1857- May 22 1955) was a twenty year old woman with a three month old baby at the start of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, which is...
Yervant Odian

Yervant Odian

male, deceased (1926)
Yervant Odian is considered to be the one of the most influential Armenian satirists. Odian's writings, which include novels and short stories,...
Udi Hrant Kenkulian

Udi Hrant Kenkulian

male, deceased (1978)
Udi Hrant Kenkulian (1901-August 29, 1978), often referred to as Udi Hrant ("oud-player Hrant") or as Hrant Emre ("Hrant of the soul") was an oud...
Elvan Abeylegesse

Elvan Abeylegesse

female, 27 years old
Elvan Abeylegesse (also formerly: Hewan Abeye (Amharic) and Elvan Can (Turkish)) (born September 11, 1982) is an Ethiopian-born Turkish woman...
Chagatai Khan

Chagatai Khan

male, deceased (1241)
Chagatai Khan ("Chagadai";) was the second son of Genghis Khan. He inherited most of what are now the five Central Asian states and Northern Iran...
Richard Nelson Frye

Richard Nelson Frye

male, 89 years old
Richard Nelson Frye (c. 1920) is an American scholar of Iranian and Central Asian Studies, and Aga Khan Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at...
Waheed Arshad

Waheed Arshad

male
Major General Waheed Arshad took over as Director General Inter Services Public Relations on 1 March 2007, replacing Major General Shaukat Sultan...

Mıgırdiç Margosyan

male, 71 years old
Mıgırdiç Margosyan is an Turkish author of Armenian descent. Margosyan was born on December 23rd, 1938 in the Hançepek district of Diyarbakır, Turke...
Kabir Helminski

Kabir Helminski

male
Kabir Helminski is a Shaikh of the Mevlevi Order of Sufism. He is the Co-Director of the Threshold Society, a non-profit educational foundation...

Sabahattin Eyüboğlu

male, deceased (1973)
Sabahattin Eyüboğlu was a Turkish writer, principally a widely popular essayist, as well as a translator into Turkish of several important works of...